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 I
have opened this small shop especially for my friends, which pestered me with requests to
show all my watches, besides those timepieces I expose onto the sale on eBay auction.
For convenience, I have divided all watches exposed onto sale, into four categories: pre-1900,
1900-30, 1930-60, and 1960-after.
 Here you will find absolutely
various timepieces. There are fully original as pocket so wristwatches. There are pocket watches
converted to the wrist at one time. I have a lot of similar watches. They were remade and
in the 20's years, and presently. Especially many such converted watches fell on the Second
World War and subsequent years. Soldiers always liked wristwatches more than the pocket, and
they were very proud of them. After the war, the huge quantity of the pocket watches, as war
trophies, has been brought into Soviet Union and the most part of them has been re-made into
wristwatches by their new owners. You should be aware that these are also original watches,
but for convenience of wearing and to satisfy fashion of those days they have been converted
to the wrist.
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 Unfortunately,
time leaves its traces on the watches and doesn't spare them. Over long years of use they
become obsolete. There are especially many watches with broken dials. Such watches are being
restored, but the dials are being made new. Sometimes they are made as former, sometimes new
dial in modern or in military style. Customers often appeal to me to make the watch with that
or other dial. Especially frequently they request the military style. It is dictated by a
fashion. Sometimes to me bring antiquarian watches and ask to replace an original dial with
the new. It isn't very good, but there's nothing to be done, people like old watches with
bright faces. You should understand that such watches also are original, but they only have
new, modern dials.
Very often movements took out
of watches. Especially it concerns expensive gold watch. Gold was on sale and re-melted for
other needs, and mechanisms were becoming unclaimed.
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In present time, the new cases
are shaped on a lathe to such mechanisms, and the watches receive the second life. They look
beautifully, stylishly, and well find their buyer. But you should know that these are already
new watches. They have old original mechanisms, but the new cases and a new dials.
About all it I try to write
in the description. But sometimes in the description I write what seems important to me, and
to the buyer quite another thing can seem important. So, before purchase it is better to find
out all exactly once again. You can always contact me by e-mail. Don't be shy to write and
I'll always answer all your letters.
I don't know how it will turn out, but I plan to update my shop once a week. I send purchases
worldwide and with free shipping.
Well, perhaps that's all. Oh yes, the most important thing. On the photo is not me. I am
a little younger!
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